Kenah Cusanit

200px|thumb|Kenah Cusanit at the Erlanger Poetenfest 2019

'''Kenah Cusanit''' (born 1979 in Blankenburg (Harz), Germany) is a German writer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kenah Cusanit |url=https://www.literaturportal-bayern.de/autorenlexikon?task=lpbauthor.default&pnd=1049699246 |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=www.literaturportal-bayern.de |language=de-de}}</ref>

== Life and work ==

Kenah Cusanit grew up in Berlin-Brandenburg. Initially, she studied archeology and, later on, Ancient Near East studies, ethnology and African studies. She graduated as a Master of Arts. Subsequently, besides writing prose and poetry, Cusanit worked as a journalist in Germany and abroad.<ref>{{Cite web |last=deutschlandfunkkultur.de |date=2019-09-27 |title=Die Schriftstellerin Kenah Cusanit - Über das Gefühl, nicht verstanden zu werden |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-schriftstellerin-kenah-cusanit-ueber-das-gefuehl-nicht-100.html |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur |language=de}}</ref> Cusanit's work has been published in numerous literary magazines like ''Edit'', ''Ostragehege'', ''poet'', ''Sprache im technischen Zeitalter'' and ''manuskripte'' as well as regularly in anthologies like the ''Jahrbuch der Lyrik'' (''Yearbook of Poetry'').<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kenah Cusanit - Autorenlexikon |url=https://www.literaturport.de/lexikon/kenah-cusanit/ |access-date=2024-05-30 |website=www.literaturport.de}}</ref>

In 2019, Cusanit published her debut novel ''Babel'' which was granted the promotional prize of the Uwe-Johnson-Förderpreis in the same year and gained her much attention ever since.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nachrichten |first=Salzburger |date=2019-07-19 |title=Autorin Kenah Cusanit erhält "Uwe-Johnson-Förderpreis" 2019 |url=https://www.sn.at/kultur/allgemein/autorin-kenah-cusanit-erhaelt-uwe-johnson-foerderpreis-2019-73638205 |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=Salzburger Nachrichten |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-02-14 |title=Kenah Cusanit taucht in "Babel" ein in die Zeit des großen Grabens |url=https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/kultur/gesellschaft/Leipziger-Buchmesse-Kenah-Cusanit-taucht-in-Babel-ein-in-die-Zeit-des-grossen-Grabens-id53782011.html |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=augsburger-allgemeine |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lesering.de |date=2019-01-30 |title=A. L. Kennedy auf Platz 1 - Die SWR Bestenliste - Aktuelles - Lesering.de |url=https://www.lesering.de/id/8647/A-L-Kennedy-auf-Platz-1---Die-SWR-Bestenliste-/ |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=www.lesering.de}}</ref>

== Publications ==

* ''aus Papier''. Gedichte, hochroth Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-902871-52-7. * ''Chronographe Chorologien I''. Gedichte, hochroth Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-902871-93-0. * ''Babel''. Roman, Hanser Verlag, München 2019, ISBN 978-3-446261-65-5.

== Awards (selection) ==

* 2009 Scholarship of the State of Brandenburg * 2010 Feldkircher Lyrikpreis<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vorarlberg |first=Landespressestelle Land |title=Willkommen |url=https://presse.vorarlberg.at/land/dist/vlk-36232.html |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=Landespressestelle Land Vorarlberg |language=de}}</ref> * 2011 Scholarship of the prose workshop of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin * 2012 Residency of the Art Foundation Donnersbergkreis * 2012 Scholarship of the arts foundation of the Free State of Saxony * 2012 Update Prize of the Bavarian Literature Foundation

* 2014 Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kunstminister Spaenle hat 17 jungen Künstlern die Bayerischen Kunstförderpreise verliehen – Bayerisches Landesportal |url=https://www.bayern.de/kunstminister-spaenle-hat-17-jungen-kuenstlern-die-bayerischen-kunstfoerderpreise-verliehen/ |access-date=2024-12-14}}</ref> * 2016 Nominated for the Merano Poetry Prize<ref>{{Cite web |title=Die Finalisten - Die Neue Südtiroler Tageszeitung |url=https://www.tageszeitung.it/2016/04/04/die-finalisten-4/ |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=www.tageszeitung.it |language=de}}</ref> * 2017 Scholarship of the Senate of Berlin<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wayback Machine |url=https://www.berlin.de/sen/kultur/foerderung/foerderprogramme/foerderergebnisse/literatur/2017_arbeitsstipendien_literatur.pdf |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241226091607/https://www.berlin.de/sen/kultur/foerderung/foerderprogramme/foerderergebnisse/literatur/2017_arbeitsstipendien_literatur.pdf |archive-date=2024-12-26 |access-date=2026-03-15 |website=www.berlin.de}}</ref>

* 2018 Scholarship of the Preußische Seehandlung Berlin Foundation * 2019 Nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for ''Babel''<ref>{{Cite web |last=deutschlandfunkkultur.de |date=2019-02-14 |title=Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse - Die 15 Buchtitel der Shortlist |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/preis-der-leipziger-buchmesse-die-15-buchtitel-der-shortlist-100.html |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur |language=de}}</ref> * 2019 Promotional prize of the Uwe-Johnson-Förderpreis for ''Babel''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-07-19 |title=Uwe-Johnson-Förderpreis 2019 geht an Kenah Cusanit |url=https://www.buchreport.de/news/uwe-johnson-foerderpreis-2019-geht-an-kenah-cusanit/ |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=buchreport |language=de-DE}}</ref> * 2019 Scholarship of the Senate of Berlin * 2021/22 Rome Prize of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo<ref>{{Cite web |title=Villa Massimo {{!}} Kenah Cusanit |url=https://www.villamassimo.de/de/stipendiaten/kenah-cusanit |access-date=2024-12-14 |website=www.villamassimo.de}}</ref> * 2024 German Prize for Nature Writing<ref>{{Cite web |title=Award Ceremony. Deutscher Preis für Nature Writing 2024: Kenah Cusanit |url=https://literaturfestival.com/en/events/award-ceremony-deutscher-preis-fuer-nature-writing-2024-kenah-cusanit/ |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=international literature festival berlin |language=en-US}}</ref>

== References ==

== External links == {{Commonscat|Kenah Cusanit}} * [http://www.literaturport.de/Kenah.Cusanit/ Dictionary entry of Kenah Cusanit] at the dictionary of authors of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin *[https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-schriftstellerin-kenah-cusanit-ueber-das-gefuehl-nicht-100.html Interview with Kenah Cusanit] at Deutschlandfunk Kultur (German) *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDZA_v37fUc Poetry reading - Kenah Kusanit in conversation with Karin Fellner] (Video in German) *[https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/kenah-cusanit-babel-ist-ein-grandioser-debuetroman-ld.1455493 Review of ''Babel'' by Paul Jandl] in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung *[https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/kenah-cusanit-ihr-roman-babel-ueber-robert-koldewey-rezensiert-a-1250392.html Review of ''Babel'' by Anne Haeming] in Der Spiegel

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cusanit, Kenah}} Category:1979 births Category:Living people Category:German women writers Category:People from Blankenburg (Harz) Category:21st-century German women writers